ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French ravisable, ravissable (greedy, rapacious, predatory)
EXAMPLE
“…Outward, lambren semen we,
Fulle of goodnesse and of pitee,
And inward we, withouten fable,
Ben gredy wolves ravysable. …”
From: The Romaunt of the Rose
By Geoffrey Chaucer, a1425
ETYMOLOGY
from river + -ling
EXAMPLE
“… Of him she also holds her silver Springs.
And all her hidden Crystall Riverlings:
And after (greatly) in two sorts repayes
Th humour she borrows by two sundry wayes. …”
From: Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes
By Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas
Translated by Joshua Sylvester, 1605
The third Day of the first Week.
ETYMOLOGY
from ubiquit- (in ubiquitair (adj.), ubiquitarian (n.), ubiquitism (n.), ubiquity (n.), etc.) + ‑ant
EXAMPLE
“… as neither is pure Air. Hence divers Divines aver Angels to be corporeal, becaus finit and limited to place; being bounded, as it were, with a superficies, that they cannot be ubiquitants every wher or elswher at once: Much more then Mens Souls, which liv in Bodies. …”
From: Theoremata Theologica: Theological Treatises.
Octo theses theologicæ: Eight theses of divinity
By Robert Vilvain, 1654
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ζῴδιον diminutive of ζῷον (animal) + γράϕειν (to write)
EXAMPLE
“… Notwithstanding upon enquiry we find no mention hereof in Ancient Zodiographers, and such as have particularly discoursed upon Animals,
as Aristotle, Elian, Pliny, Solinus and many more; who seldom forget proprieties of such a nature, and have been very punctual in less considerable Records. …”
From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
By Sir Thomas Browne, 1650
Of the Picture of the Pelecan
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin impudicus (shameless, unchaste) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… To the first, though the Libertines boast, that what is sinne in others, is not in them; and the Popish Canonists tell us, that though it may be a wanton and impudicous act in another to kiss a woman, yet a Priest doing it, it is to be presumed he doth it onely to bless her; yet we think it abominable to have such divers Weights, and divers Measures; …”
From: Coena quasi Κοινὴ: The new-inclosures broken down, and the Lords Supper laid forth in common for all Church-members
By William Morice, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
from Ichabod, the name given by Eli’s daughter-in-law to her son, used as an exclamation of regret, in allusion to 1 Sam. iv. 21
EXAMPLE
“… Dirges were sung with an Ichabodian refrain. …”
From: Daily News
December, 1887
ETYMOLOGY
from glim (a light of any kind; a candle, a lantern) + flashy (given to show)
EXAMPLE
“… What ho, my kiddy,” cried Job, “don’t be glimflashy: why you’d cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and, moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn.. …”
From: Pelham; Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman
Volume I, Second Edition, 1828
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin obstreperus (clamorous);
from obstrepere (to make a noise against, shout at, oppose noisily or troublesomely) + -ate
EXAMPLE
“… ——Get on with you, said the abbess.
——Wh – – – – – ysh——ysh——cried Margarita.
Sh – – – a——shu – u——shu – – u—sh – – aw——shaw’d the abbess.
——Whu—v—w—whew—w—w—whuv’d Margarita, pursing up her sweet lips betwixt a hoot and a whistle.
Thump—thump—thump—obstreperated the abbess of Andoüillets with the end of her gold-headed cane against the bottom of the calesh——
The old mule let a f—...”
From: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
By Laurence Sterne, 1765
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin enecat- participial stem of enecare,
from e (out) + necare (to kill)
EXAMPLE
“… The differences of Plagues are specified by the degree, qualification, or modus substantiae of the Pestilent Seminaries, which according to their grosseness or subtility, activity, or hebetude, cause more or less truculent plagues, some partaking of such a pernicious degree of malignity, that in the manner of a most presentaneous poyson, they enecate in two or three hours, suddenly corrupting or extinguishing the vital spirits; others at their first appulse excite a Per-per-acute malign Feaver; and some begin with a putrid feaver, swiftly changing into a malign one, which nature this present Pest seems to have assumed, gradually encroaching upon us, as we have already expressed. …”
From: A Discourse of the Plague containing the nature, causes, signs, and presages of the pestilence in general
By Gideon Harvey, 1665
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin liripipium, leropipium, (explained in glosses as ‘tippet of a hood’, ‘cord’, ‘shoe-lace’, and ‘inner sole-leather of shoes’);
no plausible etymology has been found; connection of the latter part with French pipe (pipe (n.)) is not unlikely;
the form loripipium, which suggests Latin lorum strap, is likely an etymologizing corruption
EXAMPLE (for n. 3)
“… I say againe, my horses:
Are ye so hot? have ye your private pilgrimages?
Must ye be Jumping-Jone? Ile wander with ye:
Ile jump ye, and Ile joggle ye: my horses;
And keep me this young Lirry-poope within dores,
I will discover, dame. …”
From: Comedies and Tragedies
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 1647
The Pilgrim
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